Kidney Stones Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
Stones in the kidney or urinary tract causing pain, blockage, or infection, managed without major surgery during this stay. Care typically involves pain control, IV fluids, and imaging to track the stone.
State average
$11,723
gross charge · DRG 694
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$2,536 – $44,463
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($2,536 at Mitchell County Regional Health Center) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $2,536Cash pay $2,282 - 2
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $2,761 - 3
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $3,047Cash pay $1,767 - 4
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $5,164Cash pay $3,615 - 5
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge $5,524Cash pay $4,419 - 6
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $6,000Cash pay $3,600 - 7
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $7,774Cash pay $4,664 - 8
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $15,121Cash pay $10,585 - 9
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $24,835Cash pay $16,143 - 10
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $44,463Cash pay $17,785 - 11
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 12
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 13
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 14
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 15
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 16
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 17
Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 18
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 19
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 20
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 21
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 22
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 23
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 24
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 25Gross charge —
- 26
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 27
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 28
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 29
St Lukes Regional Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price kidney stones (Medicare DRG 694) anywhere from $2,536 to $44,463 — a $41,928 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage; the most expensive is Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care) in Ottumwa. The state average sits at $11,723.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists kidney stones at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent kidney stones admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Iowa hospitals missing from the list either don't perform kidney stones in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 694 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.